Soyuz MS-08
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Mission dates | |||
Mission: | Soyuz MS-08 | ||
COSPAR-ID : | 2018-026A | ||
Spacecraft: |
Soyuz 7K-MS ( GRAY index 11F747) serial number 738 |
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Launcher: | Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG) | ||
Call sign: | Гавайи (" Hawaii ") | ||
Crew: | 3 | ||
Begin: | March 21, 2018, 17:44 UTC | ||
Starting place: | Baikonur 1/5 | ||
Space station: | ISS | ||
Docking place: | Poisk | ||
Coupling: | March 23, 2018, 19:40 UTC | ||
Decoupling: | October 4, 2018, 07:57 UTC | ||
Duration on the ISS : | 194d 12h 17min | ||
Landing: | October 4, 2018, 11:45 UTC | ||
Landing place: | 146 km SE of Sheqasghan , Kazakhstan | ||
Flight duration: | 196d 18h 00min | ||
Earth orbits: | 3152 | ||
Team photo | |||
Richard Arnold, Oleg Artemjew and Andrew Feustel |
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◄ Before / After ► | |||
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Soyuz MS-08 is a mission name for the flight of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz to the International Space Station . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-54S. It was the 54th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 160th flight in the Soyuz program.
crew
Main crew
- Oleg Germanowitsch Artemjew (2nd space flight), Commander ( Russia / Roskosmos )
- Andrew Jay Feustel (3rd space flight), flight engineer, ( USA / NASA )
- Richard R. Arnold (2nd space flight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)
Substitute team
- Alexei Nikolajewitsch Ovchinin (2nd space flight), commander (Russia / Roscosmos)
- Tyler N. Hague (1st spaceflight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)
As usual, Ovchinin and Hague formed the main team on the next but one mission - Soyuz MS-10 themselves, but ended up back in the Kazakh steppe after a start-up accident. They finally flew to the ISS with Soyuz MS-12 in March 2019.
Mission description
The mission brought three crew members from ISS Expeditions 55 and 56 to the International Space Station.
As with Soyuz MS-07, the classic two-day approach was used again for this mission. The reasons were the delay in the launch from March 15th to March 21st, the need to land Soyuz MS-06 in daylight and better timing for the ISS planning (arriving spacecraft and crew sleep cycles in the following weeks).
The undocking took place on October 4, 2018 at 07:57 UTC, so the ISS Expedition 57 began on the station with Alexander Gerst as commander. The landing took place on the same day approx. 4 hours later in the Kazakh steppe 146 km southeast of Scheskasgan .
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See also
- List of Soyuz missions
- List of manned missions to the International Space Station
- List of manned space flights
Web links
- Soyuz MS-08 at spacefacts.de
- Soyuz MS-08 on the Russian Space Web
- Soyuz MS-08 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Soyuz MS-08 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roscosmos launches Soyuz MS-08 mission, first crew launch of 2018. NASASpaceflight.com, March 21, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2018 .